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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 May 2015

    FACT CHECK: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had NO WORKING PHONE until the day before the Boston attack. Dragnet useless for him.

    1:43 PM - 31 May 2015
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      2. not a real name‏ @twiterisforfite 1 Jun 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel Interesting. Did he not have enough to pay his phone bill? Couldn't find any news stories about this with basic searches

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 1 Jun 2015
        Replying to @twiterisforfite

        @twiterisforfite He had a friends and family plan w/his Central Asian buddies. One of them failed to pay the bill.

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      4. not a real name‏ @twiterisforfite 1 Jun 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel Thanks, I sort of remember hearing about that. And availability of cheap prepaid is irrelevant to the NSA/surveillance issue

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      5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 1 Jun 2015
        Replying to @twiterisforfite

        @twiterisforfite Not really. They're not getting the records from the pre-paid companies, they're getting it from backbone providers.

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      6. not a real name‏ @twiterisforfite 1 Jun 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel Oh, well that could change in the future. I meant that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't have prepaid phone (until 1 day before) either

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      7. not a real name‏ @twiterisforfite 1 Jun 2015
        Replying to @twiterisforfite

        @emptywheel A lot of people feel they are more at risk from prejudices of other people than the government. Fired for Facebook comments etc.

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      2. Eric Geller‏Verified account @ericgeller 31 May 2015
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        @emptywheel: Coats is talking about using it after the attack.

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 31 May 2015
        Replying to @ericgeller

        @ericgeller Yes. But a 4-day phone record is not very useful. (And anon leakers say it'd be useless anyway, as T-Mobile phone.)

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      4. Eric Geller‏Verified account @ericgeller 31 May 2015
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        @emptywheel: True, true.

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      1. TweetRex‏ @Beyaglu 2 Jun 2015
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        @emptywheel mystifying.

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      1. Chris Hadrick‏ @Chris_Hadrick 1 Jun 2015
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        @emptywheel a la @ArvSux

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      2. Sarah‏ @hartie_sarah 31 May 2015
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        @emptywheel he actually did but it was disconnected due to non-payment.

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      3. Sarah‏ @hartie_sarah 31 May 2015
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        @emptywheel 2 days before attack.

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      1. Molly Mehaffy‏ @mollymehaffy 31 May 2015
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        @emptywheel without mass collecting. and still didn't stop them.

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      1. Molly Mehaffy‏ @mollymehaffy 31 May 2015
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        @emptywheel but fbi and cia already alerted to his brother.

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